Last Night’s TV: The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special

Those physicists at the Large Hadron Collider have it good, as they play with £6bn of equipment in a huge-scale Man Shed

The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special

BBC Two

They’re clever, those scientists at the Large Hadron Collider. Perhaps even cleverer than we think. Horizon’s The Hunt for Higgs seemed to say: even if they solve the big question of whether the Higgs Boson particle — or “God’s particle” — exists (they should, this year), they will merely uncover a thousand new question marks. Thus they’ll get to stay in this brilliant playpen that is CERN: basically a huge-scale equivalent of a Man Shed, the place at the bottom of the garden where blokes go to do their thing; the lab equivalent of the…